2023 PopSugar Challenge: a book with aliteration in the title

The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Myra lives in Arizona and is a 34 year old shut-in who has been such ever since a devastating car accident at the age of 5 left her disfigured and her step-grandmother dead. She spends her days as a freelance writer and constantly redecorating a miniature mansion her step-grandmother left her. She reluctantly shares the "adventures" of the mansion through a blog that her best friend set up.

But she finds herself suddenly in need of money and she lets her best friend/manager talk her into holding a paid entry sweepstakes to let fans of the blog redecorate a room and possibly meet Myra in person.

Alex is the scion of a very wealthy family from Virginia. Despite a very strained relationship with his father, he has returned home to help with the family fine furniture business. One day, a customer mentions the blog "The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone" to Alex and he looks at the site. Only to discover that the Minuscule Mansion is identical in EVERY way to his family's ancestral home - even down to the embroidery on the bedspread in his room.

Now Alex struggles to make sense of what it all means.

+++++++

This was a very good story. I think made even better by Christine Lakin's reading of it. I was engrossed from the beginning, even though I found and still find it difficult to label what genre it should be in. It's Urban Fantasy, meets paranormal, meets romance, meets contemporary fiction.

But regardless, I do recommend.



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